Weekly responses:
For my VSP I am going to do a story about a first crush. I found lots of photos of my little brother and a girl he used to play with. I am going to start out with the girl going through the sadness of unrequited love. My story will center around young love and how the two eventually come together as friends.
3/23
Kind of Viewer:
Primary
Secondary
Education
college graduate, business degree
(almost) some college
Professional Experience
business man, CEO, stocks, boss
cashier and customer service
Job Responsibilities
Investments, leading company, marketing
Basic responsibilities
Personal Characteristics
organized, clean, well groomed, wealthy, male
Middle-class female,independent, shy
Personal Preferences
to be left alone to work, dose not mind being single, kind of a player when it comes to women.
loves work, but wants a better pay
Cultural Characteristics
American, white, English speaking, upper class
American, white, English-speaking,suburbs, middle class
Attitude toward Photographer
Understands what its like to be a soldier and still fave a fancy for women
some knowledge of the photographer, respect.
Attitude toward Subject
Passion, desire, dominating, sexual
I think shes very pretty.
Expectations about the Subject
She wants you and only you to take care of her and be her man
She was an actress and dancer so I see talent
Expectations about the photograph
A story being told in LIFE magazine about the up and coming young actress Rita Hayworth.
View into the past, revealing much about the present.
Reasons for viewing the photograph
Entertainment, current events that are in the magazine and visual stimulation
This project
Way of viewing the photograph
reading a story maybe about the war or the stock market and stopping to enjoy the photo of Rita to relax before a meeting.
Internet and studying the photo.
Viewing Skill
having an in depth view of the photo and analyzing the composition, but not a whole lot of depth and effort is placed into it.
using rhetoric tools I learned in class
Viewer’s physical environment
upscale office with nice leather sofas around a small coffee table. Life magazine would be sitting on the table for the boss to read as he is between meetings. He leaves the magazine with the photographs out so that everyone can see them an admire his taste.
3/09
Deconstruction and Rhetorical Analysis of Film
Today I was able to listen to the speech by Tim Smith on the Rhetoric of films. Films can be deconstructed into individual images and viewed in a whole to get different meanings. We also learned about deconstructing and breaking down the motion pictures into snap shots. A montage is also a section of time shortened or altered to give it a new meaning and identity (Alfred Hitchcock). Salvador Dali even made short films as his media for surrealism to create a dreamland. While we can receive things in a film, we do not always understand them so we need to learn how to deconstruct the visual realm of films.
2/29
Amber's 1RA page
Photographs of beautiful women are able to draw people in and easily capture their attention because they use the allure of seduction. These seductive photos demand the attention of their audience and showcase the power women have and why they are coveted yet untamable.
2/24
Standards: In both photos, Rita's body is physically turned away from the camera. This shows that she is not letting her audience see her fully and that she is protecting herself. Her eyes also do not look directly into the camera, giving a feeling of distance; almost like we can take all the interest in her that we want, but she has little interest in us. The photos say you can desire me all you want but you can't have me.
Trends: The trend in both photographs is that beauty is coveted by the masses and is looked upon with authority and power.
2/17
Context: Both of these photographs were taken by Bob Landry during the 40s. Each photo is taken of Miss. Rita Hayworth who was an up and coming actress and dancer. Landry was able to take his most iconic photo of Miss. Hayworth in a nighty on a small bed looking seductively toward the camera. The second photo of Miss.Rita by Mr. Landry also made it onto the cover of LIFE Magazine. The second photo is of Miss. Rita on the beach in a bikini picnic eating her lunch and delicately touching her face. Metaphor:The metaphor for both photographs is that women have the power of seduction over men and are unable to be tamed.
2/10I
images
1/03
Glossary: Act
-Only animate objects may Act. No rocks, thus, can Act, though if dialoged from a mountain it can certainly create motion, but only living beings may Act. Act must be voluntary and purposive and must result in something new and existing. Only humans may Act. Ex: The student had to Act upon her desire to receive an A in her Visual Rhetoric course, so she completed all the class work in a timely manner. (The student takes a voluntary Action to do class work in order to receive a positive grade) Source: Rhetoric A Users Guide by John D. Ramage, Page 13
(Amber Howe)
For my VSP I am going to do a story about a first crush. I found lots of photos of my little brother and a girl he used to play with. I am going to start out with the girl going through the sadness of unrequited love. My story will center around young love and how the two eventually come together as friends.
3/23
3/09
Deconstruction and Rhetorical Analysis of Film
Today I was able to listen to the speech by Tim Smith on the Rhetoric of films. Films can be deconstructed into individual images and viewed in a whole to get different meanings. We also learned about deconstructing and breaking down the motion pictures into snap shots. A montage is also a section of time shortened or altered to give it a new meaning and identity (Alfred Hitchcock). Salvador Dali even made short films as his media for surrealism to create a dreamland. While we can receive things in a film, we do not always understand them so we need to learn how to deconstruct the visual realm of films.
2/29
Amber's 1RA page
AHowe1RA Draft
2/29
Photographs of beautiful women are able to draw people in and easily capture their attention because they use the allure of seduction. These seductive photos demand the attention of their audience and showcase the power women have and why they are coveted yet untamable.
2/24
Standards: In both photos, Rita's body is physically turned away from the camera. This shows that she is not letting her audience see her fully and that she is protecting herself. Her eyes also do not look directly into the camera, giving a feeling of distance; almost like we can take all the interest in her that we want, but she has little interest in us. The photos say you can desire me all you want but you can't have me.
Trends: The trend in both photographs is that beauty is coveted by the masses and is looked upon with authority and power.
2/17
Context: Both of these photographs were taken by Bob Landry during the 40s. Each photo is taken of Miss. Rita Hayworth who was an up and coming actress and dancer. Landry was able to take his most iconic photo of Miss. Hayworth in a nighty on a small bed looking seductively toward the camera. The second photo of Miss.Rita by Mr. Landry also made it onto the cover of LIFE Magazine. The second photo is of Miss. Rita on the beach in a bikini picnic eating her lunch and delicately touching her face.
Metaphor:The metaphor for both photographs is that women have the power of seduction over men and are unable to be tamed.
2/10I
images
1/03
Glossary:
Act
-Only animate objects may Act. No rocks, thus, can Act, though if dialoged from a mountain it can certainly create motion, but only living beings may Act. Act must be voluntary and purposive and must result in something new and existing. Only humans may Act.
Ex: The student had to Act upon her desire to receive an A in her Visual Rhetoric course, so she completed all the class work in a timely manner. (The student takes a voluntary Action to do class work in order to receive a positive grade)
Source: Rhetoric A Users Guide by John D. Ramage, Page 13
(Amber Howe)